IN-PERSON PROGRAM
*All times are BRT (GMT-3)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 08:00-09:30
Non-Terrestrial Networks 1
Time: 08:00-09:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Giovanni Geraci, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
Wide-Beamwidth Circular Polarized Antenna for Diversity Combining Applications
Juan A. Vásquez Peralvo, Juan Duncan, Rakesh Palisetty and Vibhum Singh (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Geoffrey Eappen (Kirchberg Campus & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Jorge L González Rios (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Beyond-Cell Communications via HAPS-RIS
Safwan Alfattani (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia & University of Ottawa, Canada); Animesh Yadav (Minnesota State University, USA & Carleton University, Canada); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Neural Network based Non Orthogonal Random Access for 6G NTN-IoT
Carla Amatetti (Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy); Riccardo Campana, Ali Georganaki and Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, Italy)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 10:00-11:30
Keynote
Keynote: Prof. Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark
Time: 10:00-10:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Marco Giordani, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)
Industry/academic Panel
Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications: Challenges and Future Trends
Moderator: Marco Giordani, University of Padova, Italy.
Panelists:
Prof. Ismail Guvenc, NC State University, USA
Prof. Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Dr. David López-Pérez, Huawei Paris Research Center, France
Dr. Jeroen Wigard, Nokia Bell Labs.
Time: 10:30-11:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Marco Giordani, University of Padova, Padova (Italy
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 14:00-15:30
UAV Communications 1
Time: 14:00-15:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Evgenii Vinogradov, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Trajectory and Resource Optimization for UAV Synthetic Aperture Radar
Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri and Walid Ghanem (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Christina Knill (Ulm University, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Experiments on Drone-to-Drone Communication with Wi-Fi, LTE-A, and 5G
Aymen Fakhreddine (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Christian Raffelsberger (Lakeside Labs GmbH, Austria); Micha Sende (Lakeside Labs, Austria); Christian Bettstetter (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
UAV Communications 3
Time: 14:00-15:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Evgenii Vinogradov, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Multi-UAV Wireless Positioning using Adaptive Multidimensional Scaling and Extended Kalman Filter
Zongjian Yuan (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Weisi Guo (Cranfield University & Alan Turing Institute, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Saba Al-Rubaye (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Computation Offloading, UAV Placement, and Resource Allocation in SAGIN
Nguyen Minh Dat (INRS-EMT & University of Quebec, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada)
Reducing safe UAV separation distances with U2U communication and new Remote ID formats
Evgenii Vinogradov (KU Leuven, Belgium & Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 16:00-17:30
Satellite Communications 1
Time: 16:00-17:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Aymen Fakhreddine, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
A Closed-Form Approximation of the SIR Distribution in a LEO Uplink Channel
Ilari Angervuori and Risto Wichman (Aalto University, Finland)
Satellite Communications 2
Time: 16:00-17:30 BRT
Room: Oceania VIII
Chair: Aymen Fakhreddine, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dynamic Beam-Layout Design for MEO High Throughput Satellite Systems
Haythem Chaker, Hocuine Chougrani, Wallace Alves Martins and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Grotz Joel (SES, Luxembourg)
Joint Linear Precoding and DFT Beamforming Design for Massive MIMO Satellite Communication
Ha Nguyen Vu and Zaid Abdullah (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Geoffrey Eappen (Kirchberg Campus & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Juan Duncan, Rakesh Palisetty, Jorge L González Rios and Wallace Alves Martins (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Hong-fu Chou (The University of Auckland, New Zealand); Juan A. Vásquez Peralvo, Luis Garces-Socarras, Haythem Chaker and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Terminal-Aware Multi-Connectivity Scheduler for Uplink Multi-Layer Non-Terrestrial Networks
Michael Ninma Dazhi and Hayder Al-Hraishawi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
An Empirical Analysis of Multi-Connectivity between 5G Terrestrial and LEO Satellite Networks
Melisa López and Sebastian Bro Damsgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark); Ignacio Rodriguez (University of Oviedo, Spain); Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
